Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present [terms]

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(adjective) of, relating to, or dealing with phenomena (as of language or culture) as they occur or change over a period of time

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a dense diachronic rhythmic layering

—p.82 by David Foster Wallace

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a dense diachronic rhythmic layering

—p.82 by David Foster Wallace

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relating to the writing of the lives of saints; (derogatory) adulatory writing about another person

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a general hagiography of the rapper and his crew

—p.83 by David Foster Wallace

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a general hagiography of the rapper and his crew

—p.83 by David Foster Wallace

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a tendency to extreme loquacity

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the occasional ad-lib of stressed logorrhoea

—p.95 by David Foster Wallace

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the occasional ad-lib of stressed logorrhoea

—p.95 by David Foster Wallace

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(noun) the act of encircling / (noun) an encircling area / (noun) girdle belt / (noun) a cord or sash of cloth worn around an ecclesiastical vestment or the habit of a religious

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Straight rhyme, for example, is such a stiff formal cincture

—p.97 by David Foster Wallace

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Straight rhyme, for example, is such a stiff formal cincture

—p.97 by David Foster Wallace

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(verb) depict or describe in painting or words; suffuse or highlight (something) with a bright color or light

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both the Trickster and the troubador are limned in an antediluvian era

—p.116 by David Foster Wallace

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both the Trickster and the troubador are limned in an antediluvian era

—p.116 by David Foster Wallace

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(noun) a constitutional predisposition toward a particular state or condition and especially one that is abnormal or diseased

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some diathetic Puritan reticence in white people that makes Us uncomfortable with any open mention of people's salaries, assets, the prices or value of Our things

i love this

—p.118 by David Foster Wallace

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some diathetic Puritan reticence in white people that makes Us uncomfortable with any open mention of people's salaries, assets, the prices or value of Our things

i love this

—p.118 by David Foster Wallace

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7 years, 5 months ago

(noun) an anatomical band or encircling ridge (plural: cingula)

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freedom from the muting cingula of circumstances